Campus Equity Week Coverage Round-Up

Campus Equity Week ran from October 28, 2013-November 2, 2013. The goal of CEW is to draw attention to the working conditions of the nation’s non-tenured faculty. Campus Equity Week was started by the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, a grassroots coalition of activists in North America working for contingent faculty: adjunct, part-time, non-tenured, and graduate teaching faculty. We seek to bring greater awareness to the precarious situation for contingent faculty in higher education, organize for action, and build solidarity among our colleagues.

This year’s Campus Equity Week received more media attention than ever before. Here is a round-up of coverage from publications, including a variety of main stream news sites and newspapers, unions as well as smaller news outlets and blogs:

• Huffington Post. Unethical Academia: The Next Front for Low-Wage Worker Uprising?, Oct. 17, 2013. Co-authored by Maria Maisto, president, New Faculty Majority
• Times Union. Campus Notebook: RPI adjunct ‘was like being a volunteer‘, Oct. 17, 2013.
• Yahoo Finance. Campus Equity Week Events Raise Awareness: Poor
• Faculty Working Conditions Headline Issues Affecting Quality of Higher Education, Oct. 22, 2013
• DigitalJournal.com. Campus Equity Week Events Raise Awareness, Oct 22, 2013
• Vermont Cynic. With soaring costs, film questions diploma value, Oct 22, 2013
• Virtual Education. Campus Equity Week Events Raise Awareness: Poor Faculty Working Conditions Headline Issues Affecting Quality of Higher Education, Oct. 22, 2013
• Chronicle of Higher Education. Dear Governors: Adjuncts Want to Know You Care,Oct. 23, 2013
• The Mirror. Adjuncts Fight for Their Rights, Oct. 23, 2013
• Akron Beacon Journal. One-man play highlights perils of college debt; performances scheduled in Akron, Cleveland. Oct. 25, 2013
• The Coloradoan. CSU events focus on improving non-tenure conditions, Oct. 26, 2013
• PR Newswire. Advisory: Pittsburgh Adjuncts to Mark Campus Equity Week, Oct. 27, 2013
• Inside Higher Ed. Campus Equity Week, Oct. 28, 2013
• The Real News. Adjunct Professors Join National Fight for Better Pay and Benefits, Oct. 28, 2013
• Public News Service. Campus Equity Week: Full-Time Respect for Part-Time Professors, Oct. 28, 2013
• Pittsburgh City Paper. Free Concert at Howler’s to Support Adjunct Faculty, Oct. 28, 2013
• Chico Enterprise-Record. Campus Clips, Oct. 29, 2013
• Golden Gate Xpress. Equity Week points out cost of high education, student debt, Oct 29, 2013
• Standard-Examiner. Poorly treated adjunct faculty becoming a majority, Oct. 29, 2013
• The Cauldron. Part-time, full load, Oct. 29, 2013
• Daily Orange. Labor union highlights salary issues with Campus Equity Week, Oct. 30, 2013
• Fox 17. WMU Faculty And Students To Rally For Equity As Part Of National Campus Equity Week, Oct. 31, 2013
• Public News Service. Student Zombies Protest Closure of CCSF, Oct. 31, 2013
• Daily Sundial. CFA shows film attacking higher education for Equity Week, Oct 31, 2013
• BG News. Equity Week necessary, exposes ‘poverty-level wages‘, Oct 31, 2013
• Mlive Kalamazoo. Part-time professors, teaching assistants hold rally for equity at Western Michigan University, Oct 31, 2013
• Inside Higher Ed. Northeastern Students Participate in Adjunct-Themed ‘Thriller’ Flash Mob, Nov. 1, 2013
• BG News. Faculty push for long-term contracts, Nov. 1, 2013
• Evening Observer. Small rally on big issue at SUNY Fredonia, Nov. 1, 2013
• Women in Higher Education 22 (11), 7-8. In Her Own Words: Adjuncts and the Academic Labor Force, Campus Equity Week October 28-November 2, 2013, November 2013.
  Reprinted on Portside.
• KPFK Beneath the Surface. Ana Maria Fores Tamayo interview with Suzi Weizmann, Nov. 1, 2013. Her piece begins at 26:20.
• In addition, our Oct. 22, 2013, media release, Campus Equity Events Raise Awareness: Poor Faculty Working Conditions Headline Issues Affecting Quality of Higher Education, was reprinted verbatim on 98 websites with a total audience of 6.4 million readers. Websites that picked up the piece ranged from the Anchorage Daily News to the Wichita Eagle.
• Clips of the release, showing just the headline with a hot link to it, were reprinted on the 22 websites shown below with an audience in excess of 50 million.

• AFT. Get ready for Campus Equity Week, October 2013
• AAUP. Campus Equity Week, October 2013
• COCAL. Campus Equity Week, October 2013
• NEA. Campus Equity Week, October 2013
• California AAUP.Campus Equity Week, Oct. 2, 2013
• The New Faculty Majority Blog. blogging #cew2013, Oct. 7, 2013
• Contingent Caucus’s Blog. Successful Campus Equity Week at CSU, Oct. 16, 2013
• NEO Today. Campus Equity Week: Help Improve Adjunct Faculty Working Conditions. Oct. 18, 2013
• CAUT ACPPU. Fair Employment Week highlights plight of “invisible” academics. Oct. 21, 2013
• Union Fever. OPERATION BOOKMARK: A roaring success, Oct. 22, 2013
• Hyprid Pedagogy. Not a Scarlet Letter: Talking with Students about Being an Adjunct, Oct. 23,2013
• College Misery. Friday Thirsty #2: What Are You Doing for Campus Equity Week?” Oct. 24, 2013
• Ohio Part-Time Faculty Association. Take action for Campus Equity Week, Oct. 25, 2013
• The Less United States of Kudera. Campus Equity Week. Oct. 25, 2013
• PSC CUNY. Adjuncts’ Stories of Job Insecurity, Oct. 26, 2013
• UUP. Campus Equity Week, Oct. 27, 2013
• The New Faculty Majority Blog. Welcome to Virtual MeetUps Grand Opening, Oct. 27, 2013
• Acadame Blog. Campus Equity Week, Contingent Faculty’s First Try at a National Strategic Action, Oct, 28, 2013
• Profology. I Teach POS, But I’m Not a POS*, Oct. 28, 2013
• Monologues of Dissent. On Quinoa, Food Stamps, and “Those People” (Who Teach Your Kids) #CEW2013, Oct. 28, 2013
• APSCUF. Campus Equity Week 2013: Stand Up. Speak Out. Organize. Oct. 28, 2013
• The Unarmed Education Mercenary. Civil Disobedience and Campus Equity Week, Oct. 28, 2013
• Ohio AAUP. What You Need to Know About Campus Equity Week, Oct. 28, 2013
• APSCUF. Campus Equity Week: Attitudes Matter, Oct. 29, 2013
• CFA. Campus Equity Week actions underway at the CSU & campuses across the nation, Oct. 29, 2013
• USAS. Campus Worker Justice “Hallo-Week of Action” Kicks Off at Memphis and UC Riverside, Oct. 29, 2013
• Coalition of Graduate Employees: AFT Local 6069. It’s Campus Equity Week. Oct. 30, 2013
• APSCUF. Retrenchment Day 2013: A day that will go down in PASSHE infamy, Oct. 30, 2013
• Storify.com, Higher Ed Chick. Better Pay, Conditions for Adjuncts Sought, Oct. 30, 2013
• APSCUF. APSCUF Resolution on Temporary Faculty and the Affordable Care Act, Oct. 31, 2013
• USAS. Horde of Ghosts, Goblins, Students Oppose Privatization, Oct. 31, 2013
• Migrant Intellectual. In Solidarity with Campus Equity Week, Oct. 31, 2013
• Labor Notes. A Solution to the Problems of the Faculty Majority, Nov. 1, 2013